Paperback Release Day for The Damage Done

It’s hard to believe it’s actually here, but THE DAMAGE DONE is now available in mass-market paperback! I saw it for the first time last Friday (when a box of books was delivered to my apartment and then, later in the day, on the mystery-section shelves at the Barnes & Noble in NYC’s Union Square), and I still want to jump up and down when I look at it. Forge’s amazing art department has given the book a redesigned cover, which I adore. My friend Chris F. Holm described it as my Fringe alt-universe cover, which I think sums it up perfectly. It represents the book just as beautifully as the original cover did, yet it gives it a slightly different feel.

I’m especially thrilled to have the book out in mass-market paperback, because that’s the format I grew up reading. If my family bought a book in hardcover when I was a teenager, it was probably a textbook. I bought mass-market paperbacks, and I took them everywhere with me. If you’ve been waiting to pick up THE DAMAGE DONE, I hope you’ll read it now. Keep in mind, six weeks from today the sequel, THE NEXT ONE TO FALL, will be released!

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported the release of the hardcover, whether by reviewing the book, buying a copy, or pushing it on all of your friends as a “gift” (I know some of you did that last one, and you get an extra-special thank you with a big hug). Without you, there wouldn’t be a paperback.